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    The growing appeal of semi-liquid private market vehicles represents a significant shift in how institutional investors approach illiquid asset classes.

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  • Navigating Potential Pitfalls in ‘Semi-liquid’ Private Equity

    Liquidity-friendly vehicles for illiquid asset classes are on the rise. In order to avoid potential pitfalls, however, it is crucial to interrogate asset managers’ approaches. As part of our

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    The ‘Impact Private Debt’ sector has undergone a significant phase of expansion during the past two years. This report presents an overview of currently available strategies, while an

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  • Four Family Office Trends to Watch in 2025

    ‘Energy transition’ tailwinds should, it is often argued, boost the prices of particular commodities in the years ahead.

  • Time to Press for Better Fees in Private Markets?

    A new survey of more than 300 investors (Global Asset Owner Survey, November 2024) indicates that more than 40% believe ‘like-for-like’ fees for Private Equity managers have decreased in the past

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  • Global Asset Owner Survey: Risk and Resilience

    A secular macroeconomic transition has created an unenviable series of choices—and potential traps— for pension funds, insurers, endowments, foundations, family offices and other ‘asset owners’

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    Private debt investors are eyeing apparently superior returns in healthcare lending, with funds’ net IRR targets suggesting a premium of more than 300bps versus conventional direct lending

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  • Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - November 2024

    Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - August 2024

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  • Seeking Diversity from Investment Managers

    Seeking Diversity from Investment Managers

    Diversity (or the lack of) has been a hot topic across the asset management industry for decades. However, a growing number of investors are seeking managers who encourage and display high levels

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  • Investors Should Re-evaluate Fees in the ‘Turbulent Twenties’ 

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  • Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - August 2024

    Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - August 2024

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    The property market correction of 2023-24 marks the fourth significant dislocation in this asset class since 1970. Each prior instance—the early 1970s, the oversupply of the 1980s/early 1990s and

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    Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - May 2024

    bfinance’s quarterly report in May 2024: read the team’s latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major

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